Scalise, Survivors of Congressional Baseball Shooting Disagree With FBI’s ‘Suicide by Cop’ Designation
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and other survivors of the 2017 congressional baseball practice shooting disagree with the FBI’s “suicide by cop” designation. They are asking FBI Director Christopher Wray to…
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and other survivors of the 2017 congressional baseball practice shooting disagree with the FBI’s “suicide by cop” designation. They are asking FBI Director Christopher Wray to declare it a case of domestic terrorism.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) said during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee last week, “Much to our shock that day, the FBI concluded that this was a case of the attacker seeking suicide by cop.”
Speaking to Wray he said, “Director, you want suicide by cop, you just pull a gun on a cop. It doesn’t take 136 rounds. It takes one bullet.”
He noted, “Both the DHS and the (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) published products labeling this attack as a domestic violent extremism event, specifically targeting Republican members of Congress. The FBI did not.”
Wenstrup also wrote a letter